10 results for 'cat:"Negligence" AND cat:"Defamation"'.
J. Fallon denies a Texas-based alcoholic beverages distributor’s request to dismiss a negligence and defamation suit brought by a former driver. He alleges 16 months after he left the company, a lawyer for his ex-employer falsely informed a U.S. Department of Transportation website he refused to take a drug test. The allegations “just barely” support a defamation claim of reckless disregard for the truth.
Court: USDC Eastern District of Louisiana , Judge: Fallon, Filed On: March 22, 2024, Case #: 2:24cv304, NOS: Assault, Libel, & Slander - Torts - Personal Injury, Categories: Employment, negligence, defamation
J. Lipman partially grants the plaintiff company's motion for a preliminary injunction in this lawsuit brought under the Lanham Act and the Tennessee Consumer Protection Act, alleging that a former employee "engaged in a variety of tortious activities" against the company. The company's motion is granted as to its negligence per se and defamation claims, as the company is likely to succeed on the merits of those claims and the issuance of an injunction will "also serve the public interest."
Court: USDC Western District of Tennessee , Judge: Lipman, Filed On: March 19, 2024, Case #: 2:23cv2186, NOS: Trademark - Property Rights, Categories: Civil Procedure, negligence, defamation
J. Caldwell rules in part for city and police defendants in civil rights and negligence claims contending plaintiff had been misdiagnosed as overdosing on drugs after collapsing at work. Upon being discharged in a delirious state, plaintiff was arrested for trespassing at the hospital, but evidence does not indicate the city or officers either conspired to harm plaintiff or defamed him.
Court: USDC Eastern District of Kentucky, Judge: Caldwell, Filed On: March 12, 2024, Case #: 3:22cv52, NOS: Other Civil Rights - Civil Rights, Categories: Civil Rights, negligence, defamation
J. Silver rules a portable generator box company may pursue defamation claims against a competitor. The company sufficiently showed in court that the competitor, the largest manufacturer of generators worldwide, launched a boycott to convince retailers to stop selling its products.
Court: USDC Arizona, Judge: Silver, Filed On: March 1, 2024, Case #: 2:23cv726, NOS: Antitrust - Other Suits, Categories: negligence, defamation
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J. Wilson finds a lower court properly set aside a defamation judgement brought by a surgeon against a former patient. The surgeon argued that his former patient tarnished his reputation by posting false Yelp reviews online. However, the former laser resurfacing patient sufficiently showed in court that the post did not damage his professional reputation. Affirmed.
Court: Kansas Supreme Court, Judge: Wilson, Filed On: December 8, 2023, Case #: 122,400, Categories: negligence, defamation
J. Gallagher grants summary judgment in favor of Walmart in this lawsuit brought by two shoppers involved in a confrontation with the store’s employee. The shoppers allege a host of claims claims for battery, assault, defamation, racial discrimination, false arrest and imprisonment, malicious prosecution, intentional Infliction of emotional distress, and multiple negligence theories after an employee accused them of shoplifting. The evidence shows the employee used self-defense, had a legal reason to detain, did not pose an unreasonable risk of harm and the police did their own investigation when one of the shoppers physically attacked the employee first. A jury reasonably could not find emotional distress was inflicted, or that this was a racial incident.
Court: USDC Maryland, Judge: Gallagher, Filed On: December 8, 2023, Case #: 1:22cv1029, NOS: Assault, Libel, & Slander - Torts - Personal Injury, Categories: negligence, defamation, Assault
J. Contreras denies, in part, Home Depot and others' motion for summary judgment on a shopper's claims arising from his near-arrest after a security guard mistakenly thought he had stolen an air conditioner. There are questions of fact that preclude judgment on his claims for false arrest and defamation.
Court: USDC District of Columbia, Judge: Contreras, Filed On: September 30, 2023, Case #: 1:20cv1940, NOS: Other Civil Rights - Civil Rights, Categories: Civil Rights, negligence, defamation
J. Hudson grants the brother's motion to dismiss defamation claims. An attorney and his wife allegedly beat an employee and neighbor unconscious in a drunken rage one evening. After the employee sought charges, the couple took to Facebook to start a campaign claiming the employee was a liar. No evidence was given of the wife's brother contributing to the postings for him to be liable.
Court: USDC Eastern District of Virginia, Judge: Hudson, Filed On: August 2, 2023, Case #: 3:23cv17, NOS: Assault, Libel, & Slander - Torts - Personal Injury, Categories: negligence, defamation, Assault